Meghan McCain grills ex-‘SportsCenter’ host Jemele Hill on whether Trump supporters are white supremacists

“I don’t think that his supporters are white supremacists,” Hill said. “What I would say, though, is that they have the privilege, the benefit of privilege, to be able to distance and disassociate themselves from certain issues.”

“Me, as a woman of color, I feel vulnerable to certain behaviors, certain policies, certain things that he’s said and done. And so all of that was part of that response of feeling that vulnerability,” she added.

Hill said she stood by her original comments. The White House called for the sports journalist to be fired after she made the incendiary remarks in September in the wake of the deadly unrest in Charlottesville, Va., when Unite the Right rally participants clashed with counter-protesters.

But Hill expressed regret for how she chose to convey her distaste for Dallas Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones and his strong stance against NFL player national anthem protests. Her suggestion that fans boycott Dallas Cowboy sponsors for Jones’ insistence that players stand during “The Star-Spangled Banner” earned her a two-week suspension from ESPN executives.

She should have asked the network whether she could pen a column so she could voice her opinion “with more breadth and more depth,” Hill said.

“I would just do it a different way, I wouldn’t take it to Twitter,” she said.

Hill left “SportsCenter” in January to join ESPN online vertical, The Undefeated.